jORCA is a desktop client able to efficiently integrate different type of web-services repositories mapping metadata over a general definition to support scalable service discovery and to achieve flexible inter-communication between tools.
jORCA manages repositories heterogeneity supported by the Modular-API that provides a uniform view of metadata (e.g. GRID-based, WSDL–services, BioMoby and others), making the integration of bioinformatics Web-Services easier.

Motivation

This software is intended to facilitate the use of Web-Services offering a friendly tool able to execute and integrate web-services that use different protocols.

Acknowledgement

This work has been performed and financed in the context of INB developments (National Institute for Bioinformatics, a platform of Genoma-España), and it is also being used in the framework of the Advancing Clinic-Genomic Trials’ EU-project (ACGT; Contract Code 026996).
Several partners helped us to improve the software. We thank very much all those partners, specially all the people acting as tool tester and all the bitlab (www.bitlab-es.com) team.

Note: the application requires java 6 or later .

jORCA has been tested under UNIX (Fedora 11, open SUSE 11 and Ubuntu 8.1), MS-Windows and Mac OS 10.5 operating systems. Java VM version 1.6 o later is required.

This software is under a Creative Commons license..